The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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